Using AD-Powershell to protect OUs from accidental deletion

If you use Active Directory-Users and –Computers from Windows Server 2008 or higher (also ships with the Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows Vista or Windows 7), or the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2 or Win7 RSAT newly created OUs are protected from accidental deletion. However, this does not apply to OUs which were there prior (migrated) or OUs which are created another way. Therefore, during migrations or when you still run downlevel versions of the administration tools, I recommend to protect OUs from accidental deletion but you need to find another way to do it instead of looking into the Object-Tab of each OU (with… Read More

If you use Active Directory-Users and –Computers from Windows Server 2008 or higher (also ships with the Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows Vista or Windows 7), or the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2 or Win7 RSAT newly created OUs are protected from accidental deletion. However, this does not apply to OUs which were there prior (migrated) or OUs which are created another way.

Therefore, during migrations or when you still run downlevel versions of the administration tools, I recommend to protect OUs from accidental deletion but you need to find another way to do it instead of looking into the Object-Tab of each OU (with Advanced View selected).
Powershell v2 and the new Active Directory Commandlets makes this easy for us:First you need to import the Active Directory Commandlets:

import-module ActiveDirectory

Then you query all OUs, and pipe them into the set-ADOrganisationalUnit Command and specify to set the “flag” to protect the OUs from accidental deletion: